Following the House of Representatives vote on H.R. 3590, the Senate Health Care bill, I want to provide you with an update on this important issue facing our state and country. I support more centrist reforms to lower health care costs but oppose the Senate bill. I want to tell you why.
Kirk: “By rejecting the Medical Rights Act, Speaker Pelosi will allow the federal government to come between you and your doctor.”
Pelosi bill raises taxes $700 billion as U.S. unemployment rate tops 10%;
1,990-page bill cuts $100 billion from Medicare hospitals, $100 billion from Medicare doctors, $100 billion from Medicare Advantage and even cuts Medicare skilled nursing, hospice and wheelchairs
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) tonight voted against Speaker Pelosi’s trillion-dollar 1,990-page government health care bill, just hours after House leaders refused to allow an up-or-down vote on the congressman’s amendment to prohibit the government from coming between patients and their doctors.
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Kirk: Enact the Centrist Medical Rights Act (H.R. 2516): "Congress shall make no law interfering with the decisions of you and your doctor"
Pelosi bill: Cuts Medicare and Raises Taxes in the Teeth of the Great Recession
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), co-chair of the centrist Republican Tuesday Group and co-author of the centrist Medical Rights and Reform Act, issued the following statement on Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-page health care bill:
Aug 25, 2009 - Maybe President Barack Obama, instead of portraying opponents of his version of heath-care reform as liars, should cast out the mote in his own eye. From him and his White House has flowed a never-ending stream of misinformation, disinformation, exaggerations and just plain baloney.
Kirk's town hall is so packed that a 2nd session was added (Chicago Tribune)
By Georgia Garvey
Aug 25, 2009 - An Arlington Heights town hall meeting on health-care reform led to impassioned debate Monday afternoon, with overflow crowds chanting, carrying signs and forcing a second meeting.
Aug 25, 2009 - ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (WBBM) -- Overflowing crowds -- as many as a thousand peolpe -- eager to debate health care reform filled the Arlington Heights Village Hall - twice - when Republican Congressman Mark Kirk led back-to-back town hall meetings yesterday.
August 24, 2009 (ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.) (WLS) -- Tenth District Congressman Mark Kirk hosted a town hall debate, with hundreds of people on both sides of this controversial issue turning out.
A packed house prompted back-to-back town hall meetings.
Aug 24 - The health care reform debate rages on in town hall meetings across the country including here in Illinois. So many people turned out for one meeting in Arlington Heights Monday that a second meeting had to be added at the last minute to accommodate more of the crowd.
By Madhu Krishnamurthy and Deborah Donovan (Daily Herald)
Hundreds of area residents packed the Arlington Heights village hall boardroom to debate health care reform at a town-hall meeting Monday led by U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk.
